Notes from the Post-it Wall | Week of September 14, 2025
• Young people are more in favor of political violence because they don’t yet fear death. But not because of that wholly humanistic Zest of Youth and that conviction of invincibility, but because they truly believe their death is not the end. They will live on forever because of their stories. Their social media record serves up the historical record of their journey. And their death from assassination or war or hate crime will be the moment their life comes alive. The living concludes as the legacy begins. Rumors, fascinations, debates, aggrandizing… The legacy becomes a What Could Have Been and never a This is What Was. So, yeah, they want violence and murder? Send them to the front lines. Let them take the first canister of righteous tear gas. Let them take the blame for killing the murderous, crooked cop in his home. And then watch them change their tune—the survivors, that is. There’s a reason many old generals are peaceniks—they’ve seen what war does to humanity and what it doesn’t do for the betterment of it.
• War is for the foolish. Foolishness is for the young. Our future demands the Old mind the Young with patience, kindness, and compassion.
• As we get older, moving and shaking becomes hard on the hips.
• Age as a theme in a weekly blog post is a sign of a tired brain.
• Having more to remember makes it easier to forget the things you want to put past you.
• We never feel as old as we look. Children feel like adults, adults feel like children. The downside to this is when adults act like the children they were when stuck in detention after class.
